Flag football: touchdown or fumble?

• Position: Sports - High school girls play flag football - Brief article

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Flag football is one of the fastest-growing varsity sports for high school girls in Florida: A decade after it was introduced, 5,000 girls play statewide. That's helping to close the gender gap in high school athletics, as required by Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in education. But some women's sports advocates call the sport a dead end because it's played only at the club and intramural level in colleges. (Alaska is the only other state that considers it a high school varsity sport.) Supporters say the aim of high...